We’re Looking For A Few Good Reads

Maya Kosoff has an interesting article over on Vanity Fair’s Hive site. In Facebook Admits It Might Be Poisoning Democracy, she notes that Facebook’s top brass and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have begun to suggest that social media has done its share of damage to the Republic. Gee, Mark, ya think?

Meanwhile, Eugene Robinson over at the Washington Post, writes that Trump is being used, and he doesn’t even know it. Robinson argues that Trump has been largely marginalized in the White House, and real decision-making has shifted to people Stephen Miller and John F. Kelly actually run things, while the Orange One simply plays at being the President.

Speaking of funny, be sure to check out yesterday’s Andy Borowitz. In Video Emerges of Trump Lying Under Oath, Borowitz portrays the video of Trump taking the oath of office as a classic case of fabrication. Trump hasn’t lived up to a single one of his promises on that.